CLUCKHOUSE (HUNTER'S GRASS)

by Alexander Lill

Ending in three or four short spreading points,
constructed to unhorse 
but not to wound the Knight
in the body bent or bowed, in stoop
in my walking things I headed into the snow.

The stains of hunter�s grass,
lest the boy be healed, boy be held in the wash of life,
lost in the hunter�s grass.
Peel fruit to forget, 
or was it stand
in a steel hoop?  

�In them are thousands of dipped oars, lances and bugles.�
�for therein the cottages by lamplight, sharpened weapons were tried.�

I work in my clothes that love you.
Bolt off and paw the ground with
an oxen heart and lung,
washed in the hunter�s grass.